Archive for April, 2009
Same Sex Marriage and Miss California
In an attempt to deal with a news item not arranged by the President I decided to check out the news concerning the most recently proclaimed hater of gays, Miss California, Carrie Prejean. She was a contestant for the Miss USA title in a beauty contest produced by Donald Trump. She has been vilified [...]
Justice Department Torture Memos Released:
The release by Obama of correspondence concerning harsh interrogation practices used by the CIA has failed to include an important aspect of the whole subject. There were 3000 people killed in NY by terrorists about whom we had little information (intelligence). As a nation we were faced with a threat the likes of [...]
After a Tea Party-Thoughts
More than 5000 were at the Denver Tea Party yesterday. Families and ordinary plain speaking people made up the crowd. Most of the attendees were attending a rally of this nature for the first time. It was strictly an amateur affair not slickly structured with professional signs. The people were not radical [...]
The Tea Party & The Obamanistas
Today across the country there are hundreds of meetings,-Tea Parties-, taking place. There citizens, who are owners of America, will gather to question the budget and other recent actions and inaction of Congress and the current administration.
These Tea Party events are another signal that there is a growing restlessness among a large sector of [...]
Clowns and Jokers
When I review the political activity in the Nations Capital I feel like if I could write a song to describe the players. The first line could be “Clowns to the left of me and Jokers to the right”. Since that line has already been used the song idea probably won’t happen.
The line does [...]
Pizza in America
Near the end of a tough working weekend with lawyers and accountants preparing for a critical Monday presentation that I was to make, somebody ordered pizza. The largest shareholder in the company who had flown in from California for the prep session was a lifelong friend. When the pizza arrived from a national [...]
Another Slice of the Obama Pie: by Heath Suddleson
As I indicated yesterday, I’m working on my non Obama list and thinking about more pleasant things. Heath Suddleson has however jumped in with comments on Obama’s trip that expand the thoughts I expressed. I’m using his comments as a guest post today while I think about East Coast Pizza. It has been [...]
Pizza or Obama
Several friends who are Obama fans have been encouraging me to write about some other thoughts than those of a political nature. One friend suggested that she enjoyed my writing but her eyes glazed over when I went after Obama again and again
Thoughtful criticism should be considered so I started to make some lists [...]
The Queen Meets Barack and Michele
Meeting The Queen
The press coverage of the Obamas meeting the Queen described the ritual pretty accurately. The Queen has been doing this so long that no rehearsal is needed by Her Majesty.
She has some helpers that have covered the protocol with those being introduced with people from all over the world. It is [...]
